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Learning Objectives. Examine the role that information technology plays in today's organizations.Present the developments in knowledge management and human capital/intelligence.Discuss the impact of globalization as an environmental context for organizational behavior.Describe the meaning, role,
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1. Chapter 2 Environmental Context:
Information Technology and Globalization
2. Learning Objectives Examine the role that information technology plays in today’s organizations.
Present the developments in knowledge management and human capital/intelligence.
Discuss the impact of globalization as an environmental context for organizational behavior.
Describe the meaning, role, and dimensions of culture as a context for international organizational behavior.
3. Technology and Communication In what ways do we share information today that are enabled by technology?
What are the implications of this information sharing?
4. The Role ofInformation Technology E-Business Models
Knowledge Management
KM as Acquiring and Storing Information
KM as Sharing and Leveraging Information
KM Systems (e.g. SMS)
KM in terms of contract labor
Human/Intellectual Capital
e.g. Walmart and Amazon,
5. Globalization Besides information technology, the other major environmental context impacting organizational behavior is globalization.
Today, well-known U.S.-based multinational corporations have more than half their assets overseas.
With trends toward similar clothes, entertainment, material possessions, and recognition that English is the international business language, people around the world still think and behave in different ways.
The starting point of how the globalization environment affects and is affected by organizational behavior is culture.
6. Looking Across Cultures Stereotypes vs. Archetypes Culture stories that stuck out?